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To remove the text have you tried going to the Taskbar Properties and changing it to Always combined high labels?

As for making the buttons flat like in your example image if you are using the default aero theme I can change that for you, using Windows Style Builder and post it here in a zip folder. I can also remove the text from there to by using a blank font that I can provide to you to download and install on your computer also.
If you are using a custom theme you will need to ask the theme maker. It's not cool to change someone else work.
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This will be a custom theme and you will need to do 1 of these 2 ways of Enabling custom themes for it to work.Enabling Custom Themes - Windows 7
OrTheme - How to Apply Custom Themes

All I need from you would be a name to call this custom theme let me know if this is something you would like done.
Jerry

Give this a try, download the zip folder at the bottom of this post extracted to your desktop and both put 1 Sora_Metro_Taskbar folder and 1 Sora_Metro_Taskbar.theme file in C:\Windows\Resources\Themes

Right-click on the blank font and click on install a little window will open up showing it being installed and will go away.

It will show up in Personalization under Installed Themes as Sora_Metro_Taskbar

The width of the buttons cannot be changed unless you use the Always combined high labels in the taskbar property window.
If it's not quite right let me know.
Jerry

Here you go, switch to the default aero theme then log off/ log on remove both of the old 1 Sora_Metro_Taskbar folder and 1 Sora_Metro_Taskbar.theme file and replace with the new ones.
Give it a try.
Let me know if it's OK
Jerry

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